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Red Wings Airlines plans Belgrade service

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Russian carrier Red Wings Airlines plans to introduce services between Moscow's Domodedovo Airport and Belgrade this summer season, in an attempt to end the duopoly on the route held between Aeroflot and Air Serbia. The company has applied for slots at Nikola Tesla Airport with plans to commence operations on June 2, in the lead up to the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which is being held in Russia. Flights will be maintained twice per week with a staggered schedule for the better part of the championships after which services will run each Tuesday and Thursday until the end of the 2018 summer season in late October. The airline is yet to receive permits for the flights and put tickets on sale.

Red Wings Airlines is the second Russian carrier to attempt to challenge Aeroflot and Air Serbia on services between Moscow and Belgrade. In December 2015, Ural Airlines commenced operations from Domodedovo Airport to the Serbian capital but suspended flights just nine months later due to poor loads and strong competition. Red Wings Airlines has operated charter services to Serbia in the past, most recently from Kaluga, some 150 kilometres southwest of Moscow, to Niš in January 2016. Within the former Yugoslavia, the airline maintains seasonal operations to Tivat and Pula. As a result of the upcoming World Cup, Aeroflot and Air Serbia will add additional flights between Moscow and Belgrade in June, while NordStar Airlines will also run a special charter for fans.

Russia continues to be one of Belgrade Airport's biggest markets. Both Air Serbia and Aeroflot have a wide-ranging codeshare agreement in place with the Serbian carrier maintaining its flight numbers and designator code on Aeroflot's services from Moscow to Belgrade, Kazan, Krasnodar, Samara, Sochi and St Petersburg. In return, Aerfolot codeshares on Air Serbia's flights from Belgrade to Moscow, St Petersburg, Podgorica, Sarajevo, Skopje, Tirana and Tivat. The two airlines operate a total of 24 weekly flights between the Serbian and Russian capitals, making it the fifth most frequent route based on the number of departures this summer. Serbia and Russia maintain visa free travel for each others' nationals.

Domodedovo is much better airport than Sheremetyevo (when they move your flight to Belgrade from terminal F to terminal D, which happens quite often, it`ll take you some 20 minutes to get there on foot - just to find yourself standing in an ugly walkway, tired, waiting for the flight).

It would be good some third player to decrease high fares between Russia and Serbia (similiar as Niki did few years ago between BEG and VIE), but as someome mentioned already JU and SU seem to be too strong here.

This one was sent as equipment upgrade on scheduled flight to fulfill increased demand. The same was the case once in Aug 2006. And IL-86 was sent as equipment upgrade many times during 80' and a few times during 90'. So, a lot of SU widebodies on regular flights in BEG so far.

I think the bilateral between Russia and Serbia was renegotiated a few years ago and now allows other airlines to fly (before it only allowed Aeroflot and Jat/Air Serbia). That's how Ural Airlines was allowed to start flights.

They are almost 300 euros return fare. Aeroflot is always 5 euros cheaper than Air Serbia which is hilarious since we know what kind of service Air Serbia now offers. Interestingly it is cheapest to fly with Alitalia via FCO but the small difference in fare compared to flying nonstop isn't worth it. I haven't checked the prices for June. They will probably be very expensive because of the world cup.

Spoken like an W6/FR employee of the month. National carrier can also become more efficient, lower fares, increase tourism and provide more choice, all without letting all the revenue and employment go elsewhere.

oh, they will get permit, as there is an open skies agreement between Serbia and Russia. but, they will fail. utterly fail, simply because JU and SU code share among each other, and are far too strong. they might have success on other routes, but BEG-MOW no way

A couple of years ago Gaspromavia flew scheduled Sochi to Belgrade flights. This was mostly to transport construction workers to Sochi working on the winter olympic sight but does anyone know if tickets could also be purchased freely?

just checked and found they sold all their Sukhois. I would like someone to explain why. Its not quite a bad plane, and is very affordable. I know its used even on Brussels-Stockholm route. So why Russian carriers are letting these planes go?

Anyone who is working in the private sector, especially in a business that deals with sales, will know that no matter how good your product is, switching customers to something new/different is not easy.

Placing a new product requires a lot of time and effort. Anyway, when it comes to aviation and technology, I think Russians are a little bit ahead of the Brazilians.

If one is to follow your logic then SN Brussels should have opted to lease a DC-9 or a F-28 as it would be a wet-lease and they wouldn't really operate it or be accountable for anything.

Reality is that SN Brussels was confident enough to place its livery on the aircraft and to be associated with the SSJ.

To me that looks like a vote of confidence for the manufacturer. Anyway, didn't CityJet order additional aircraft?

I find it absolutely hilarious that you praising a Brazilian aircraft with Brazilian technology over a Russian-Italian-French project.

To me this seems more anti-Russian bias than anything else.

p.s. Aeroflot has been great at resisting government pressure when it came to ordering Russian aircraft. This was especially apparent at the time when they were getting ready to introduce the A321. The Russian government tried to force them to take the Tu-204 but their efforts all failed.

SSJ has been on sale for 15 ywars and on operation for 10.I think that airlines all over the world had ample time to look into its business case and decide if it fits their operations.Sadly it doesn't. And that will not change now. Lets hope that MC-21 has better luck in global markets.

Why are you getting defensive over SSJ and Russian technology? No one above said that it is in any way inferior. We are just pointing out that on the market SSJ sales are doing much worse than western RJs. It is a fact.As to why is it like that, I'm sure there are various factors. There is still prejudice against Russian aircraft which people mostly associate with old Soviet ones.Also, Sukhoi is relatively unknown when it comes to passenger aircraft. As comparison, Embraer was around for decades before E-Jets rolled out with EMB120 and Erjs and it still took a while for their sales and popularity to take off.Who knows, 717 was doing poorly during production, but 10 years after it ceased it became a sort of a hidden jem, so there's always hope

It is true Aeroflot operates only SSJ, the rest of the fleet is foreign-produced. However they do have 50 MC-21s ordered. But what else is on the market that they could use? Tu-154, Tu-204, Il-96?

As somebody else said, SSJ has been around for quite a while and hasn't gained any significant traction in the free market.

I don't know why one wouldn't trust Brazilian aircraft? Have a look at how many ERJ and E-Jets are flying around every day without problems. Certainly more of them than all of the Russian airlines in service combined. Gets even more obvious when you substract the number of aircraft operated in Brasil/Russia on both sides.

All good points.We should add to the reasons for airlines reluctance to buy SSJs the fact that with so few airlines operating it and with previous generations engines on them the resale value of these birds will be horrible. Airlines nowadays do not buy aircraft and keep them for 30 years (JU is an exception of course :D) but replace them much sooner.

SSJ arrived into an already overcrowded market where politics and not economics play the major role. Interjet was one of the very few 'free' airlines to order something without any political biais since they're a private airline in an enough large market. Introducing any new type into an existing market is an already huge challenge that any manufacturer will need to overcome besides the policital biais and lobbying. JU didn't have the market case for 4 A319 in 1998 yet it still ordered them for political reasons.

Not so closely but still related, when you look at the scandal Turkey faced when ordering the S-400 (considered by most military experts as best SAM systems in the world) you'd expect the same behind the scenes for any airline trying to order Sukhoi or aircraft from other Russian manufacturers. The fact that Patriots are inferior didn't prevent them from becoming the most widely used system in the world where S-400 is again in the minority.

"Stefano Marazzani, chief executive of the Venice-based marketing arm SuperJet International, speaking on the sidelines of the ALTA Leaders Forum says that Garza was likely referring to the availability, rather than the technical reliability, of the SSJ100. He adds that the dispatch reliability of the global fleet is around 99%."

In theory Air Serbia's SVO flight has the same fare model as all other routes (except New York) BUT you will see that the economy white fare is 'sold out' on all days so you have to take the full economy fare.

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